How to pronounce“expensed”in English

can we find some direct evidence of how they're smoothing earnings uh and ideally you'd want something that's sort of a discretionary itemthat's late in the year that's flexible uh that's expensed from an accounting perspective and maybe hard for outsiders to easily detectand so we're going to look at that in the context of charitable giving okay now um i've got to be honest uh we had a sample of one to start with